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05 June 2006

DumbCo Update [More:] Remember the other day I told you that they said we'd have a severance agreement in writing by close of business Friday? I left early so I didn't see it, but I figured that it'd be in my inbox today. No dice. We're told it has to pass management approval and we'll see it sometime today. I sense foot-dragging and the aroma of bullshit is wafting through the air.

Also, one of the head muckety-mucks rode the elevator with me friday. He said hello, so for politeness' sake I nodded back. He said "How's it going?" "Survivin'" I mumbled. "Lots of stuff going on," he said. I mumbled and shrugged some more. As we hit our floor he said "Uncertainty is very disarming," and walked off toward his office. WTF?
Was he trying to get in your pants? "Disarming" is something I'd say about a winning smile or a charming lack of grace exhibited by someone I wanted to fuck.

Seriously, he might as well have said, "Your uncertainty turns me on."
posted by Hugh Janus 05 June | 10:31
"Uncertainty is very disarming" - isn't that the Dumbco Mission Statement?

Can you do me a favor and get yourself and TrishaLynn and whoever else is nearby and do an audio post of you all saying Dumbco for me?

posted by Lipstick Thespian 05 June | 10:32
Ugh. What a travesty.

Just goes to show, the people wielding the axes can rarely make peace with their own actions.
posted by Miko 05 June | 10:35
I don't know love, maybe that new Snake Peel shower gel's just too powerful, especially in tight quarters like elevators... quite disarming. : )

Axe Snake Peel, no less.
posted by Pips 05 June | 10:44
Maybe he meant "disconcerting" or "debilitating" or something like that. I tend to do this, mean one thing and say something else, and then later shake my head with amazement at what I actually said. Fortunately, I mostly just make no sense -- I have yet to accidently sound like I'm hitting on somebody.
posted by JanetLand 05 June | 11:14
I dunno, JanetLand. This dude had a real serious look on his face as he said it, as if it was some real deep shit to him. Of course he also wears the silly-ass Indiana Jones-type hat, as if we were traipsing through the jungles of Borneo instead of a drafty former warehouse in SoHo.
posted by jonmc 05 June | 11:16
Maybe he meant 'disarm' as in 'After the Secret Service disarmed John Hinckley, President Reagan signed a disarmament treaty.'
posted by box 05 June | 11:17
Oh that hat! So disarming!
posted by JanetLand 05 June | 11:19
Still nothing. We're getting handjobbed here, and not in a good way.
posted by jonmc 05 June | 12:48
Maybe that's what "disarming" means.
posted by JanetLand 05 June | 13:13
Someone I know was being evicted and his landlord said: "change is good."
posted by StickyCarpet 05 June | 15:23
Some people, even when they're not fat and only slightly jolly, like to pretend to be the fucking Buddha.
posted by Captaintripps 05 June | 17:42
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